Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-24
ExHHLARATENG SPORT.
The New Haven TobSggan Club 10 Have a New Slide on Orange street to be Commenced at once.

The New Haven Toboggan Club 70
 Have a New Slide on Orange street 10
 be Commenced at once.
 This cold and invigorating winter weather has started the members of the New Haven Tobopean club into active life, and soon after New Year's the cheerful shouts of the merry tobogganers will echo and resound again and again among the many hooks and corners of East Rock Park and vicinity as the excursionists go flying down the chute in their many and varied -colored toboggan suits The slide this year will be on the lot owned by the Yale corporation and situated between Everit, Cold Spring and Orange streets, which the Toboggan club have leased. The contract for building the slide has been awarded to Major W. A. Lincoln. It will cost about $1 ,250 when completed. Yesterday MT. Lincoln visited the lot where the slide is to be built and he will put large force of men on the work st once, and in less than two weeks it is expected the slide will be ready for use. It will probably face towards the northwest, the chute being at Orange street and the slide towards Everit street. From the plans of the slide drafted by Ar chitect L. w. Robinson the slide will be @ big improvement in every way over the one
 
 chute will be forty feet high and 1S0 feet long, while the level slide will be 1000 feet, making total slide of 1 ,180 feet, sev- eral hundred feet larger than the one of last year. At the top of the chute will be plat form 16x1S feet, and from this the tobog gamers will be started on their long slide. The chute will have double track, each three feet wide, with sufficient safety guard on each side to keep the toboggans in place and prevent the sliders from being injured. The stairs and drag by which the tobogganers reach the top of the chute will not be built the entire length of the latter, was the case last year, but will commence half way along the chute and by gradual rise reach the top. Somewhere in the vicini- ity of the slide will be built house for the storing of the toboggans when they are not in use and for the tobogganers to get warm in when not sliding. The slide will be packed with ice from Lake Whitney and will probably be illuminated by electric lights, which will be a great improvement over the lights used last winter. The toboggan suits worn by the sliders will probably be about the same as last year, which, although not particularly handsome, will cause very striking picture as the tobogganers go flying down the slide on a cold moonlight night. The change in the location of the slide was made to give longer slide. Secretary Will liam H. Hale, of the firm of Bennett & Hale, at 112 Orange street, will probably have
 
 members this year will be: F. H. Andrews, H. P. Anderson, F. H. Benton, E. 0. Ben nett, N. s. Bird, jr., T. A. Bostwick, Pro- lessor William H. Brewer, E. Henry Barnes, w. H. Bean, F. P. Clark, Lewis 0. Cowles, George R. Chamberlin, Leveret Candee, Robert E. Day, Eli G. Dickerman, A. G. Dickerman, Burton A. Davis, w. H. Downs, George I. Doolittle, W. s. Dalzell, J. Howard Demarest, William M. Frisbie, Justus S. Hotchkiss, Frank E. Hum, Lewis Hetchkiss, F. G. Hotchkiss, H. P. Hubbard, E. D. Hendee, W. H. Hale, N. H. Hoyt, jr., William A. Harris, E. B. Lee, Edward Laws renee, T. H. Macdonald, E. F. Mansfield, William H. Moseley, A. w. Mattoon, A. McNeill, Robert T. Merwin, F. A. Monson, Leroy McKein, John H. North, E. S. Os- born, J. J. Osborn, jr., Joseph Porter, Sum- ner H. Peck, L. M. Perkins, s. K. Page, Chauncey F. Rider, J. W. Ruthven, Horatio G. Redfeld, E. Read David Steele, W. G. Shepard, H. T. Thompson, Elford P. Trowbridge, E. Grant Trowbridgs, Fred E. Wadsworth, J. T. Whittelsey, A. T. Lund- berg, P. T. Sherman, Fred Ives, R. L. Ire land, J. D. Ireland, H. s. Parmelee, J. H. Davis, William Burton, Palmer Field, L. w. Hall, O. s. Wright.